picoquantio: Read files generated by PicoQuant hardware

See also libpicoquant for the C equivalent.

Main features

• read data from phu, ptu, hhd, ht2, ht3, phd, pt2, pt3, thd, t3r formats
• automatic file type detection
• greedy and lazy loading
• pure Python implementation

Getting started

The source code is hosted on GitHub at: https://github.com/tsbischof/picoquantio

The latest released version is available on pip:

pip install picoquantio

Documentation

The official documentation is hosted on readthedocs

Examples

The library can either be used in Python programs, or as a standalone command-line tool.

Developer API

import picoquantio
t3 = picoquantio.load('data.ht3')

Command-line interface

$ picoquant --file-in data.ht3
[...]

Dependencies

• numpy

License

BSD 3-clause

Contibuting

All contributions, bug reports, bug fixes, documentation improvements, enhancements, and ideas are welcome.

Development is active on Github